Game-table.



No. 771,210. I PATENTED SEPT. 2'7, 1904.

P. J. SAUSEN. GAME TABLE.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 8, 1903. RENEWED JUNE 27. 1904. N0 MODEL.

A TTORNEY UNITED STATES Patented September 27, 1- 04.

PATENT OFFICE.

PETER JACOB SAUSEN, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- THIRD TO JOSEPH J. SMYTH, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

GAME-TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,210, dated September 27, 1904. Application filed September 8, 1903'. Renewed June 27, 1904. Serial No. 214,417. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER J AOOB SAUsEN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Seattle, in the county of King and State of WVashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Game-Tables, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in game-tables, and has for its objects to provide a table on which to play a new game of skill with balls and which shall embody features in the combinations and arrangements of ball pockets and races which render the game highly interesting.

The above-mentioned and other desirable objects are attained by the construction, combinations, and arrangements of the ball pockets and races as disclosed on the drawings, set forth in this specification,and succinctly pointed out in the appended claims.

With reference to the drawings filed herewith and bearing like reference characters for corresponding parts throughout, Figure 1 is a plan view of the table. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a portion of the same; and Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section of a portion of the table, taken through the center pocket.

This table is constructed in the main like the ordinary pool or billiard tables, and the game is played thereon with balls and cues similar to those employed in the well-known game of billiards and pool. The table includes a rectangular base-plate 10, which is preferably covered with billiard-cloth and is mounted on suitable legs, or it can be placed on an ordinary table for support, and this plate is edged with a marginal frame 11 and is provided with a centrally-located circular depression 12, having a level bottom and an opening 14 in the center of greater diameter than the balls used in playing, and a suitablyinclined trough 15 can be arranged under this opening to convey the balls to the margin of the table.

Midway the length of each side of frame 11 is a substantially triangular-shaped truncated nose 16, which is attached at the base side to the frame and projects inwardly on the baseplate of the table and is formed with a semicircular ball-receiving recess 17 in the truncated side, which is of somewhat greater diameter than the balls used in the game and is slightly constricted in width at the throat, and the side walls of this nose are concaved, and the points on the nose at each side of the entrance to the throat are rounded.

Between each corner of the frame 11 and each nose 16 is an inwardly-projecting triangular-shaped point 19, which is preferably rounded at the apex and is cutaway adjacent the base by a transverse segmental race 20, and the edges of this point at the base are concaved and merged into the frame 11 on a slight curve.

The inner corners of the frame 11 are preferably filled with triangular-shaped fillets 21, which are formed convex along the inner side edge or hypotenuse and the inner edge of the frame and the active edges of the noses 16, points 19, and fillets 21 are covered with a suitable resilient facing, as strips of rubber or the like, by which the balls may be deflected.

One game to be played on this table would be as follows: A cluster of balls are arranged at one end of the table and the cluster broken by shooting the cue-ball, as in the ordinary game of pocket-pool. Following this the players inturn endeavor to shoot balls through the recess 20, lodge them in the recesses 17 and also in'the depressions 12 without shooting them into the opening 14: by using the cue-ball as a driver, as in ordinary pool.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of America, is

1. In a game-table of the nature indicated; the combination of a base-plate having a marginal frame, noses projecting inwardly from saidframe and each having a ball-receiving recess in the end restricted in width at the throat, and points between said noses projecting inwardly from said frame and having transversely-disposed ball-races adjacent the bases.

2. In a game-table of the nature indicated; the combination of a rectangular base-plate having a centrally-located depression and an aperture in the bottom of said depression and a marginal frame, a nose midway the length of each side of said plate projecting inwardly from said frame and having a ball-receiving recess in the end restricted in width at the throat, and a point between each nose and adjacent corners of the plate projectinginwardly from said frame and having a transverselydisposed ball-race adjacent the base.

3. In a game-table of the nature indicated; the combination of a rectangular base-plate having a centrally-located depression and an aperture in the bottom of said depression and a marginal frame having fillets in the corners, a substantially triangular-shaped truncated nose midway the length of each side of said plate projecting inwardly from said frame and having a ball-receiving recess in the end restricted in width at the throat, and a triangular-shaped point between each nose and adjacent corners of the plate projecting inwardly from said frame and having a transverselydisposed segmental ball-race adjacent the base. Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 3d day of August, 1908.

PETER JACOB SAUSEN. Witnesses:

W. PARRY SMITH, L. H. PONTIUS. 

